[Qgis-developer] [PROPOSAL] From srs.db to file-based CRS storage

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Alex

Isn't it a regression to go from sqlite files to text files? Sqlite 
allows to search tables with sql and afaik this is used in several places.

>while moving and editing flat text files is much easier for ordinal users

Ordinal users normally don't care about CRS at all. I agree with Andreas 
here that it is much more difficult to have knowledge about CRS than 
using an sqlite editor (or the commandline prompt).

Regards,
Marco

On 30.01.2012 20:58, Alexander Bruy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> currently QGIS used srs.db to store projection definitions. But with
> this approach
> users can't reorganize CRS definitions as they want (always used predefined tree
> with predefined groups).
>
> This can be solved by switching to file-based storage of the CRS
> definitions as in
> latest ArcGIS versions or wxGIS. All CRS definitions are stored as
> files in WKT or
> SPR (preffered) format in subdirectories in some redefined folder and
> user can freely
> create new subdirectories and move files between them to organize
> CRS'es as he/she
> wants.
>
> Opinions, comments?
>
> Thanks


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